المُكافَأةُ

RECOMPENSE

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2– Imam Ali (AS), in his exposition of rights, said, ‘…Then, from His right, He, glory be to Him, created certain rights for certain people over others. He made them so as to equate with one another. Some of these rights produce other rights, and some rights are such that they do not accrue except with others.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 216]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Extend your hand in recompense to one who has done good to you, and if you cannot do so, then at least thank him.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2383]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘If you are greeted with a salute then greet back with one better than it, and when a hand is extended towards you, return it with more that what it did; and the merit for this is with the initiator.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 62]

5– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘The act of kindness is like shackles that cannot be unlocked except through recompense or thanks.’
[al-Durra al-Bahira, p. 34]

6– Imam al-Kazim (AS), with regards to Allah’s verse: "Is the requital of goodness anything but goodness?" said, ‘It means that among the believers, disbelievers, righteous and sinful, when good is done unto them they must recompense it. Recompense is not that you do what was done such that you see your own merit, for if you repay it exactly as he did unto you, he has the merit in being the initiator.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 311, no. 1]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The worst form of recompense is requital with bad.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 53, no. 85]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘From the perfection of faith is to recompense the bad doer with goodness.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9413]

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Whoever recompenses a foolish person with foolishness has accepted what has come unto them, since they imitated that example.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 322, no. 2]

10– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Whoever is kind to you, be kind to them, and whoever belittles you be kind to yourself
[by ignoring him].’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 278, no. 113]

11– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There is no glory with revenge.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 10518]

12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hastening to revenge is the greatest of sin.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 6766]

13– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The worst action of an empowered person is revenge.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3003]

14– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘It is written in the Torah: O son of Adam…If you are oppressed with injustice then be content with My help for you, for My help for you is better than your help for yourself.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 304, no. 10]

15– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who digs a hole for his brother will fall in it himself, and he who exposes the veils of others, the shames of his own house will be exposed.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, p. 88]

16– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who mocks will be mocked, and whoever insults will be retorted to. He who sows trees of piety will reap fruits of goodness.’
[Kashf al-Ghummah, v. 3, p. 136]

17– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘As you give so shall you get.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7208]

18– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Be good to your fathers and your children will be good to you, and restrain yourselves from other people’s women and your own women will be chaste.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, p. 359]